But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.

Love thy soul, manifest thy light

Work hard for what you need in life and door of prosperity will open for you

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Wake up! Time to die!

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

I'm not actually an arrogant guy. It's just that, truthfully, nobody else can really compare to me.